Phred Benham (PI)

As a young birder growing up in New Hampshire, I became involved in bird research from an early age assissting Len Reitsma at Plymouth State University. I traveled to Louisiana State University and the LSU Museum of Natural Science for my undergraduate studies. I pursued a Master’s thesis on the biogeography of Andean metaltail hummingbirds with Chris Witt at the University of New Mexico. This was followed by a PhD with Zac Cheviron at the Universities of Illinois and Montana where I focused on salt marsh adaptation in the Savannah Sparrow. An NSF post-doctoral fellowship brought me to the University of California Berkeley. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Department of Biology & Wildlife and Institute of Arctic Biology.